A scuba diver in Israel found an ancient sword believed to have been dropped by a Crusader knight (the Crusades lasted from around the years 1095 to 1291). It was Shlomi Katzin who discovered the 900-year-old sword at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea bed off of Carmel Beach. After he found the ancient weapon,. Read more »
Fish swimming off the Carmel coast in western Israel may have been alarmed last Saturday to spot a scuba diver kicking through the water with a large, barnacle-encrusted sword in hand.
The amateur scuba diver stumbled upon a bunch of ancient artifacts near his local beach, including a large, 900-year-old iron sword encrusted with marine organisms.